Friday, October 24, 2014

Notions

Caught My Eye

Always have this notion that I will exercise more when I'm on vacation. Gosh (I've been waiting to write that), I'm not sure how the Biggest Loser and Extreme Weight Loss contestants exercise for four and five hours a day.

When I went for the Notable Burials tour, I also did yoga and went climbing (only four routes). I was knackered (thanks Charley Boorman, The Long Way Down) at the end of the day but I guess it's okay to be knackered on vacation when you still have time to recover. I did realize that I never found time to drink coffee and I'm pretty sure that was a contributing factor to my knackeredness.

I've been catching up on reading. I have about five items that can no longer be renewed at the library. One of those items is the April 2014 issue of O: The Oprah Magazine. Loved the 20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself segment.

Question 10: Am I Helpful? by Gloria Steinem

Big problems often have small solutions...The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters -- because we never know which things might.

Question 11: What Am I Afraid Of? by Michelle Wildgen

...and what calms me now in the face of my most profound fears is not reassurance that nothing bad will happen, but that some of it has, and here we still are. You do not self-destruct when your fears come to pass.

Question 14: Am I Strong Enough? by Brenda Shaughnessy

But it doesn't take strength to love your child. It's the other way around: Love gives you resilience.

Forbidden Websites

Front Crawl Breathing/Swimming Advice

Inhale as early as possible and for as long as possible.Try to keep one eye in the water.Keep your head on the same plane as your body.from Freestyle Breathing Technique video

If it is in the wrong position, soon everything else will be, too. In swimming as in life, you gotta get your head in the right place.from Breathing While Swimming by Coach Dee, Excel Triathletes Blogspot

The greater the distance between your finger tips and your toes, the better.

Have Goggles, Will Swim, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Triathlon Training

In proper freestyle swimming, the head moves with the body to take the breath; it never moves independently. You don’t want any lifting of the chin to take a breath. You don’t want any looking forward or to the side of the pool to take a breath. You want to rotate your head in line with the your body…

Lovin' It

N.Y.L. (New York Laundry): Relaxing, Exercise, Shopping, A Fun Time, Being Seen In, Anything

Navy Blue Speedo Ultraback (RIP: Jan. 2009 to July 2009)

Steamfresh Specially Seasoned Southwestern Corn

Trader Joe's Multigrain & Flaxseed Water Crackers

Wasa thin & crispy rosemary flatbread

Mantra

The Best Life Diet is not a diet in the usual sense of the word. You don't go on it, then off it as the term diet typically implies. It is, instead, a diet in the traditional sense of the word: a way of eating - for life. It's based on a well-balanced regimen of interesting, satisfying, nutrient-rich, and easy-to-find-and-prepare foods...